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Adobe Flash on Firefox 3 Beta
March 5, 2008 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 10 Comments
Posted in Applications, How to..., Installation
Just a quick post here...
I installed the Firefox 3 Beta (Version 3.0b3 as of this post) on my Ubuntu Box and... damn... Flash is not working again!
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html
It's a quick(er) fix though (Firefox just needs the link to flash plugin):
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so /usr/lib/firefox-3.0b3/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so
** For those who did not install Flash in the first place, just do this to get it:
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
Update: If you are having trouble with sound playing in one application (Rhythumbox for example) and flash in another (YouTube for example), but have no sound in the flash player, take a look at this fix: Playing Music & Not Getting Sound in Flash?
"...PulseAudio as your audio backend (which Hardy does by default), you need to have libflashsupport installed..."
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How to make it in Fx3b5? Changing “firefox-3.0b3″ to “firefox-3.0b5″ doesn’t work…
@m_gol – Let me see what I can find. This was just release yesterday (Apr. 02) so I have not installed it yet.
From:http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0b5/releasenotes/
“..Extensions installed under previous versions of Firefox may be incompatible and/or require updates to work with Firefox 3 Beta 5. Please report any issues to the maintainer of the extension.
When you install Firefox 3 Beta 5 all of your Extensions and Themes will be disabled until Firefox 3 Beta 5 determines that either a) they are compatible with the Firefox 3 Beta 5 release or b) there are newer versions available that are compatible…”
But flash is a plugin, not an extension…
@m-gol – Yes you are totally correct! :)
I was just trying to get across to any readers that because Firefox 3 is still in Beta, that there are going to be issues. ;) That’s the only reason why I quoted it. I will try the upgraded later and see if I have the same issue with Flash (I probably will). And then we can see how we are able to fix this.
Thanks!
:)
@m_gol – It works for me.
I could be that flash is installed in a different location?
Maybe you don’t have it installed in the path used by the post? Try changing the actual path to the location on your system.
No, I have it installed in standard location. File:
/usr/lib/firefox/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so
exists. I made symb. links to this file (which is, also, sl to /etc/alternatives/firefox-flashplugin) in the following locations:
/usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins
/usr/lib/firefox-3.0b3/plugins
/usr/lib/firefox-3.0b5/plugins
but it changed nothing.
Shouldn’t I do sth with stuff in /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree? I have no other idea.
Maybe anyone knows just how to find a place where Fx looks for Flash? I could find it on my own – now I cannot use Flash at all with Fx3 and it is a “little” disturbing…
I asked at mozilla forum and I got a very simple answer – just to go to Adobe site, download *.tar.gz script and install it manually. Now it really works!
@ m_gol – Wow… this is “spooky”. I was reading this very post when you commented!! http://forums.mozillazine.org/.....p?t=646033
For anyone following this thread, Lucas Malor on Mozilla forums provided the solution:
Try with a clean profile or to install it manually, if you don’t:
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave.....form=Linux